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A Raisin in the Sun - Essay Structure (Characters (Walter Lee (Dream…
A Raisin in the Sun - Essay Structure
Characters
Walter Lee
Dream
"this little liquor store we got in mind"
Struggle
Walter said "You know the check is coming ..." , "take a few thousand and help you through school to..."
Sexism
"Then go be a nurse like other women"
Ruth Younger
hard working, Responsible, Stressful, Caring mother
Quote: "Walter that ain't none of our money."
Travis Younger
Young, Naive of the next generation about the discrimination between Black and White community
he need books about " POOR NEGROES"
Quote:" Mama, I can bag the groceries"
Beneatha Younger
Quote: "What do you want from me, Brother- that I quit school or just drop dead, which!"
Powerful, Strong Independent, Ambitious, Aggressive, Modern, Stubborn,
Joseph Asagai
Nigerian, culturism, determine, traditional, independent
Quote:"Where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?"'
"...the world's most liberated women are not liberated at all."
George Murchison
v
Quote " Let’s face it, baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass huts!"
Karl Linder
White Community
"Antagonist" - Racism/ segregation/Discrimination
Quote: "I don’t understand why YOU PEOPLE are reacting this way."
Lena Younger (Mama)
"[Death] done come walking in my house on the lips of my children"
Loves her children
Tries to keep her family/children
Walter Younger
Hard working
Symbolises:
Ideal man of the family
The hope of the black community
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Structure
~Plot~
Plot
Climax
Willy run off with money so Bobo and Walter tried to find Willy, but he was disappeared
Bobo and Walter tried to find Willy, but he was disappeared : "Man, Willy is gone."
Falling action
Walter refused Mr. Lindner's offer : "And we have decided to move into our house because my father...."
Walter: We have decided to move into our house because my mother—my father— he earned it for us brick by brick.
Rising action
Ruth is pregnant and Walter is given money by Mama(Lena Younger). He invests all of the money, including Beneatha’s money.
Exposition
A working black family, struggle against hardship
“Travis: This is the morning we supposed to bring the fifty cents to school
Ruth: Well , I ain’t got no fifty cents this morning”
Major conflict
Mama slapped Ruth
"Slaps her powerfully across the face...Now-you say after me, in my mother's house there is still God"
Resolution
They move into the new house
The family starts to file out as two moving men appear and begin to carry out the heavier pieces of furniture, bumping into the family as they move about.
--Language--
Grammar
.
For example, Beneatha's
educated vocabulary and grammar
compared to Walter et al
Ruth: " He ain't hardly got in there good yet"
Beneatha:"You are nut.
Thee
is mad,boy"
Vocabulary
,
Themes
Family
Mama
Strongly believes in the importance of family, tries to teach it to her family, struggle to keep them together and functioning.
"There is always something left to love and if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing"
poverty
6 people live in a small tentnement
segregation
racism
Mr. Linder
Representing the "Clybourne Park Improvement Association" to 'tell'(persuade) the Younger family to not move into the neighborhood.
Sexism
Doctors can't be female
tradition and root
assimilation
Straightening hair
American dream
Beneatha wants to be a doctor
Walter's inductor
personal response
DISLIKE
RACISM
EVIDENCE
MAMA
"Them houses ... up for the coloured in them areas ... seem to cost twice as much as other houses."
BETRAYAL
"Man, i trusted you...Man,i put my life in your hands.. Man...
THAT MONEY IS MADE OUT MY FATHERS FLESH-
SEXISM
WALTER
"...See there, that goes to show you what women understand about the world. "
POVERTY
"You aint the only person who got to use a bathroom"
learn about
belief,
black people and white people have equal right
still racism and sexism
LIKE
Younger's Family don't let hinder discriminate against them.
not giving up the hope
walter's family value
responsibility as father
Dramatic Devices
Costumes
Props
Walter's cigarrettes
Symbolism
Beneatha: "
(colourful robes of a Nigerian woman)
"
Movement
Gestures
"
(working her fingers through Ruth's shoulder to relax her)
"
Actions
"
(slaps her powerfully across the face)
"
Stage positions
Stage wings
Front stage/ Back stage
Intonation
Ruth:
angry, yelling
"You ain't the only person in the world got to use a bathroom!"
Ruth:
crying, sad
"I'm alright..."
Ruth: Walter Lee- it's time for you to GET UP!
Sound effects
"
The phone rings
"
Dialogue
Mama: "Yes baby-" Beneatha: "Thank you."
Monologue
Lighting
Differences between days and nights
Differences between moods, as in depression and happy
Soliloquy
Facial Expressions
Mama:"
(changing her expression to acute delight and a ringing cheerful greeting)
"
Terminology
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Protagonists
Antagonist
Writer's techniques
Symbolism
Karl Lindner
= The White community unwillingness to black people in Clybourne park.
The Insurance Money
= Hope for the future of the Younger family
Beneatha's hair
= Anti-assimilation (At the beginning her hair is straight, then it became an Afro. Her traditional hair.)
"Eat your eggs!"
= How a woman puts down a man's dream, act of empathy
Mama's Plant
= The Younger's fate, condition, well-being, future... (Because the plant still thrives in a bad condition)
The Slap
= Modernism VS Tradionalism
Figurative language
Sound
Onomatopoeia
"..."
Alliteration
'Dear,Dear,Dear'
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Imagery
Oxymoron
"
Personification
'The Silence Shouts"'
Simile
'Something eating you up like a crazy man.'
Metaphor
'It's all right for mama to be a tyrant'
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Emotive Language
'Hate'
'Tyrant'